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Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday contested an effort by former President Trump to toss his Jan. 6 prosecution citing the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of a Jan. 6 rioter facing one of the same charges.  



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Smith fights Trump bid to toss Jan. 6 case, charges faced by rioters

Special counsel argues Trump is ‘incorrect’ to argue that he is not legally responsible for summoning his supporters to Washington and directing them to march on the Capitol

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The Independent

Evgeny Lebedev

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Trump bears responsibility for January 6 attack, Jack Smith says

Special counsel Jack Smith told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s decision limiting some obstruction charges against those who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, should not apply to Donald Trump in the election subversion case against the former president.

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Special counsel says obstruction charge against Donald Trump in January 6 case should stand

Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday contested an effort by former President Trump to toss his Jan. 6 prosecution citing the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of a Jan. 6 rioter facing one of the same charges.   Smith’s team argues that the charges for obstructing an official proceedings should stand, arguing that the statute includes…

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Special counsel Jack Smith told a federal judge Wednesday that a recent Supreme Court ruling limiting the scope of an obstruction charge used in Jan. 6 cases does not apply to former President Donald Trump’s election subversion case, arguing the justices “did not invalidate” the statute being used against Trump. Smith argued the obstruction counts of the superseding indictment should be sustained because Trump is accused of creating false eviden…

Washington Examiner

Philip Anschutz

Jack Smith says obstruction charge against Trump should be sustained

Special counsel Jack Smith argued in a filing on Oct. 16 that former President Donald Trump should still face trial under an obstruction law even after the Supreme Court narrowed its meaning in a case decided this summer.
Earlier this month, Trump’s attorneys told Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that the Supreme Court’s decision in Fischer v. United States had narrowed the meaning within the Sarbanes-O…

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New York

Jack Smith Says Supreme Court’s Jan. 6 Ruling Allows Obstruction Charge Against Trump

Special counsel Jack Smith slapped back Wednesday at yet another demand from former President Donald Trump to dismiss his federal election interference case, court records show. Smith filed in Washington D.C. federal court a response to Trump's recent motion to dismiss charges that he corruptly atte...

Raw Story

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'False evidence': Jack Smith slaps back at 'half-hearted' dismissal demand

Trump, Smith's team said, "willfully caused others" to obstruct the certification of President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory by repeating his false claims...

NBC News

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Donald Trump bears responsibility for Jan. 6 attack, Jack Smith argues in new filing

Special Counsel Jack Smith made a new claim about Trump’s role on January 6, 2021, with less than two weeks until Election Day.

The Gateway Pundit

Jim Hoft

A Desperate Jack Smith Makes New Crazy Claim About Trump and January 6 with Less Than Two Weeks Until Election Day

Special counsel Jack Smith says that former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in a new filing responding to Trump’s legal team trying to dismiss the federal election interference case. NBC News’ Danny Cevallos details the response and next steps in the case.

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New Jack Smith filing asserts Trump is responsible for Jan. 6 Capitol riots

(CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith told a federal judge on Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s decision limiting some obstruction charges against those who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, should not apply to Donald Trump in the…

Smith fights Trump bid to toss Jan. 6 case, charges faced by rioters

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